Microsoft Windows Antispyware (BETA) Thread

UrbanDictionary.com lays out the fundamentals:

The fact is, you may be housing hundreds of these in the files you use every day, even when you boot up your computer.

Microsoft's newest (and free) download takes care of your spyware problems by offering a full scan through your computer for any files that are affected by these little buggers and recommends what method you should use, whether through a Quarantine, Ignoring the problem (if it doesn't harm your computer at all), or Deleting it completely. This is a great program that I've been using for about a week. It's been smoothly built to take care of your spyware problems, while also giving you a warning of a file that's trying to download that may or may not have spyware programs attached. This is especially useful if you use a P2P program, and you don't want to have that invasion of privacy all over your computer. Give it a try, and you can see that, just from the beta, this is one great program that'll replace AdAware as your #1 choice for spyware-zapping.

Microsoft.com

Edited by (in order): Karuto, Karuto

hmm i wonder if its better then adaware or spybot. ill have to check it out later..

1. It's microsoft

2. I don't have any of these spyware problems.

I don't know anyone who manages to obtain hundreds of spywares a day, and if they do, they shouldn't be using a computer.

bah! I don't like Microsoft security stuff, I hate SP2! I'm just gonna stick my my trusty Ad-Aware.

mix that with a spoonful of spybot and you got yourself some great protection

Edited by: Chunky

GUNrunNER wrote: 1. It's microsoft

2. I don't have any of these spyware problems.

I don't know anyone who manages to obtain hundreds of spywares a day, and if they do, they shouldn't be using a computer.

You're probably just not aware of it. It's not like you can see it happening, necessarily. It's kind of like running ScanDisk. You never know the problems with your computer until you actually use a program to check it. You find out your computer runs faster with the spyware removed.

Just try it out and see for yourself. Don't be so quick to judge it.

or just use adaware....

i'm deff. going to check it out sometime. thanks for the link karuto.

embers. wrote: or just use adaware....

Well, like I mentioned, this is a healthy alternative to AdAware. It solves the same problems, if not more, since it's directly configured for Windows systems. Not to mention, it's also free. I'm just letting people know, really, that it's out there

Karuto wrote:
You're probably just not aware of it. It's not like you can see it happening, necessarily. It's kind of like running ScanDisk. You never know the problems with your computer until you actually use a program to check it. You find out your computer runs faster with the spyware removed.

Just try it out and see for yourself. Don't be so quick to judge it.

It's not like scandisk at all. I download it, ran it, and surprise surprise, it didn't find anything. I'm aware of what spyware is on my computer (or in most cases is not on my computer) because I'm not stupid enough to go to a site or use a p2p program which would invoke such spyware.

i just tried it out, cleanered up some problems i've been havin latly too. I definatly like it, thx Karuto!

limewire is the only p2p software i might use once in awhile because it has no adware or viruses. btw, before anyone says anything, limewire isnt illegal, downloading stolen movies and such is...

dEaThMaStEr wrote: i just tried it out, cleanered up some problems i've been havin latly too. I definatly like it, thx Karuto!

No problem, man. I'm happy I helped someone

The~David~Cult wrote: limewire is the only p2p software i might use once in awhile because it has no adware or viruses. btw, before anyone says anything, limewire isnt illegal, downloading stolen movies and such is...

downloading mp3s is illegal
downloading videos(even pr0n) is illegal
downloading software is illegal

the only thing u can download of limewire that is legal are .txt files and such

and i dont understand ur guys obsession with legality really seeing as i KNOW all of you have donwloaded an mp3 in your life

and david stop giving people misinfomation

DC++ does not contain spyware
Bit torrent does not contain spyware(unless you download certain versions of it)
Soulseek does not contain spyware

Edited by: embers.

embers. wrote:

The~David~Cult wrote: limewire is the only p2p software i might use once in awhile because it has no adware or viruses. btw, before anyone says anything, limewire isnt illegal, downloading stolen movies and such is...

downloading mp3s is illegal
downloading videos(even pr0n) is illegal
downloading software is illegal

the only thing u can download of limewire that is legal are .txt files and such

and i dont understand ur guys obsession with legality really seeing as i KNOW all of you have donwloaded an mp3 in your life

and david stop giving people misinfomation

DC++ does not contain spyware
Bit torrent does not contain spyware(unless you download certain versions of it)
Soulseek does not contain spyware

next time read everything. "limewire isnt illegal, downloading stolen movies and such is..." thats the same thing as saying "etc.". instead i said "and such". Thats not misinformation...

And im not the one who cares about legalness, moddb does.

yes but why even bother bringing it up? no-one was even talking about it

yes they were. they were saying how p2p programs have viruses and you should use the microsoft scan program if you use a p2p program. thats why i mention how limewire doesnt have viruses.

It's not the program that has viruses, It's what people send over the program that have viruses.

yes. thats why people should only download files that are compressed, so that they can scan them once downloaded.

now lets get back on topic

it tried to get rid of msn plus :\ how odd

lol you're joking right? that would be funny as hell if it really did try to do that..

it does do that, because it picks up all chat programs as potentially harmful

oh. i thought it was eliminating all competition...

no, its because msn plus installs spyware. It did it for me too and found two spyware programs installed by msn plus. So ya, msn plus is gone for me now. However i also use trillian, and no problems there.

Edited by: dEaThMaStEr

The~David~Cult wrote: yes they were. they were saying how p2p programs have viruses and you should use the microsoft scan program if you use a p2p program. thats why i mention how limewire doesnt have viruses.

Don't get this program wrong. It's not an antivirus software. It's an antispyware software. I don't know if it'll protect you against viruses. You'd have to get another program, like Norton or McAfee, to solve that problem.

And yes, a lot of programs are covered. You have to make sure that before you finalize the choices of MWAS (Microsoft Windows Antispyware shortened), you want to check to make sure that there are no programs up there that says it will delete that you don't want deleted. That's how I lost Morpheus.